Metal roof



(No Model.)

w. L. HEBERLING.

METAL ROOF.

N0. 364,251 Patented June '7I 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC WILLIAM L. HEBERLING, OF BATH, ILLINOIS.

METAL ROOF.

SSPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,251,:1ated June 7,1887.

Application filed Dtcemhrr 11, 1 885. Serial No. 185,365. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. HEBER- LING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bath, in the county of Mason and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improverhentsin Metal Roofs; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of "the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of metal roofs that have standing seams, and particularly to anchoring and capping for these seams.

The object of my invention is not only to provide anchoring and capping for metal roofs that will hold them securely while allowing them to expand and contract from heat and cold without injury, but to improve over all other methods of closing up these seams by so constructing my capping that in putting it on it will always lap or extend down an equal distance on each side of the seam, and that, when brought together by sea1ning-tongs,'it will present to the sides of the seam a surface that will adapt itself to any unevenness existing there, so as to fill the depressions and come into close and continuous contact with the sides of the seam throughout its entire length, and by avoiding at the sides of the capping all raw edges, and all nail, key, and rivet holes and broken surface of every form that fails so rapidly when exposed to the weather, and, also, by having no anchors overlapping the caps and no sudden depressions or protruding parts of any kind about the seams to prevent the proper and rapid application of paint, and to secure all these excellent qualities in a form of anchoring and capping so simple and so perfectly adapted to the purpose that it can be manufactured more cheaply and used by the roofer more easily and with less expense than any other form now known.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a general view of a section of roof with my capping in different stages of application.

Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detail views of my invention, showing it in slightly-modified forms.

It consists simply of one or more anchors for standing scams in metal roof, a, a, and a, Figs. 2, 8, and 4, with their hooks or lapping-over parts extended to form a capping for the seams, as a a. In other words, my invention consists of a' seaurcap, as a a, with one or more extensions for anchoring, a, a, and a, Figs. 2, 3, and 4.

My capping-anchors, or anchoring-caps, may be prepared for the roof either flat, as shown in Fig. 3, or bent lengthwise through the center nearly in V form. They may be made without having their side edges bent under throughout, but are'preferably made with them so bent, as shown. They are formed with one end a little larger than the other, so

that they will fit neatly into each other when connected on the seam, and so that any porat left-hand end of Fig. 6, any necessary dis tance therefrom; or they may be made of different lengths, to be used alternately with each other for spanning openings in the sheeting without waste.

Each anchor-extension may be divided in part, so that a portion of it may be folded down over each flange of the seam, thereby securing for both flanges an equally substantial and direct fastening to the sheeting.

It will be noticed that in forming capping for standing scams by extending only the lap- )in -over ortions of anchors we entirel 1 b p 9 avoid the great waste of material which some older methods incur by extending the upright and flange portions of their anchors the full length of their caps.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure byLett-ers Patent, is-

1. One or more cleats or anchors for stand- ICO ing seams in metal roof, with theif top ends divided for opposite folding, and one of these divisions so extended as to form capping for the seam.

2. A cap for standing seams in metal roof so extended as to form one or more anchors with divided ends for opposite folding.

3. One or more cleats or anchors for metal roof, having a lapping-over end or ends so extended as to form capping with its side edges turned under.

4. A cap for standing seams in metal roof, havingits edges turned under, and one or more extensions for anchoring between theseams.

5. A cap for standing seams in metal roof I11 testimony whereof I aflix my signature 25 in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L, HEBERLING. Witnesses:

D. G. HARMIsON, S. G. IrIAvIG'noRsT. 

